Ghana TV News, 17.08.2010 (please visit again!) | | | | Seven Highway Robbers Arrested * Source: GNA | Kadjebi, Aug 17, GNA - The alertness exhibited by the people of Pampawie and adjoining villages in the Kadjebi District led to the arrest of six suspects believed to be involved in last Friday dawn's highway robbery at Pepesu.
They are Abdul Ousman, Mohammed Bube, Fuseini Abubakar, Francis Tombianu, Kwame Abotsi and Dzitrame Apawasah.
According to Mr Seth Alifui, Kadjebi District Chief Executive, two suspects each were arrested on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and sent to the Police Station following a tip off that they might be hiding in their area.
The DCE, therefore, appealed to travellers, who had become victims of the robbers, to assist in identifying them to aid investigations and prosecution.
Mr Alifui commended the Police-Community joint taskforce for their
cooperation, which facilitated the arrest of the suspects and called for its sustenance.
He said the District Security Council (DISEC) would soon meet on the issue and explore the avenue for replicating the Nkwanta District's example of erecting Police barrier at the spot, which had witnessed two robberies since January.
Mr Alifui said DISEC would also consider encouraging mobile telephony companies to extend coverage along its highways as permanent solutions to the problem.
Meanwhile, information reaching the GNA indicates that a seventh suspect was arrested on Tuesday dawn at Breweniase in the Nkwanta District.
Highway robbers last Friday mounted a barricade on a segment of the Hohoe-Nkwanta road at Pepesu and allegedly raped and seized cash, mobile phones and other valuables from travellers on both sides of the road.
The robbers mostly of Fulani extraction, reportedly, subjected their victims to torture and other forms of dehumanizing acts and fled into the bush on the approach of the Police Highway Patrol team. | 184,000 Ghanaians are blind * Source: Ghanaian Chronicle | WORRYING information from the country's health sector is that about 184,000 Ghanaians are suffering from preventable blindness, with a further 600,000 suffering from various forms of visual impairment.
Out of this figure, the common eye disease, cataract, which can easily be rectified with the right and timely surgical intervention, constitutes half of the cases, with only 15% of the population getting access to medical treatment.
What is even more disturbing is that more of the youth in the country are falling prey to these avoidable eye complications.
The above alarming statistical figures were disclosed by the Deputy Minister of Health, Mr. Robert Joseph Mettle-Nunoo, in Kumasi during a sod-cutting ceremony to mark the construction of an Ultra-Modern Eye Centre at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH).
The Deputy Minister noted that it was unpardonable that in the 21st Century, blindness continued to plague the country, in spite of the Ministry's efforts to achieve the global goal of eliminating preventable blindness worldwide by 2020.
Mr. Mettle-Nunoo said aside its negative socio- economic consequences, the prevalence of preventable blindness was a serious indictment on Ghana as a country, stressing that efforts must be made to arrest the situation.
The Deputy Health Minister, however, attributed the distressing condition to the shortage of trained eye care staff and facilities, especially in the northern part of the country. He said, currently, there are only 50 ophthalmologists in the country, with a ratio of one to 400,000 people, adding, 'The overwhelmingly majority of these 50 specialists are based in Accra, and some few urban centers.'
Mr. Mettle-Nunoo expressed optimism that with the establishment of the Ultra-Modern Eye Centre at KATH, eye care services would be enhanced, not only for people in the region, but residents in the northern half of the country.
He, therefore, commended the funding partners of the project, alongside KATH, the Himalayan Cataract Project, USAID, and the Church of Latter Day Saints, for the laudable initiative.
The Ashanti Regional Minister, Mr. Kofi Opoku Manu, said the project would make a significant contribution towards addressing the widening gap in the availability of specialist healthcare services in general, and eye care services in particular, in the region. | Minister says investment in tourism is a key to employment * Source: GNA | Koforidua, Aug 17, GNA - Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, the Eastern Regional Minister, has said investment in tourism was a key factor to employment generation to fulfill the government's agenda of a better Ghana.
He said the Regional Coordinating Council (RCC) was taking a look at tourism facilities in the region to be able to improve upon those facilities to attract visitors.
Mr Ofosu-Ampofo therefore stressed the need for hotels facilities to run an integrated system of their services and tourist attractions.
He said this when a team from the Pentecost University College presented a project proposal for the development of the tourism industry in the region to the RCC for consideration.
Mr Ofosu-Ampofo suggested that for example as part of the integrated system, site seeing could be added to the cost of services including a ride from the hotel to the tourist destination.
He said by this tourist sites in the region would be improved to attract visitors that patronize the hotels in the region for conferences and seminars to create more job opportunities in the area.
He mentioned Akaa, Tini, Asenema, Boti and many sites in the Fanteakwa area whose potentials had not been tapped.
Prof Kwame Boasiako Oware Antwi, the Vice Rector of the College, said the project was from the marketing department and aimed at re-branding the region to the outside world.
He said the proposal was a detailed identification of all the tourist sites and potentials in the region and packages to promote them to attract visitors.
Professor Antwi noted that the project would woo investors to the region and the scale over effects would be enormous for the benefit of "buying and selling". | Man stabs step-daughter for denying him sex *Source: GNA | Ashaiman, Aug 17, GNA - A 46-year old polytank repairer is in the grips of the Ashaiman Police for attempting to rape his step daughter and in the process stabbed her in the left eye for denying him sex.
Assistant Superintendent of Police Christine Yevunoo, the Ashaiman Divisional Co-ordinator of the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU), told the GNA on Tuesday that the repairer, Kwabena Twum, lives together with her 22-year-old step daughter and her mother in a chamber and hall apartment at Zenu near Ashaiman.
On July 14 while the mother was asleep in the chamber, the suspect attempted to rape the victim in the hall but when she resisted him, he took a broken bottle and stabbed her in the left eye.
The suspect went into hiding for five weeks but the police arrested him yesterday at the Ashaiman main lorry station when he was trying to board a vehicle.
Mr Yevunoo said the suspect admitted the offence and that a medical report from the Tema General Hospital showed that the victim has been blinded in the left eye due to the stabbing. | | |
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| Over 1,500 tourists expected to attend the Agotime Kente Festival * Source: GNA | Link to: Ho and Kente Festival Ho, Aug. 17, GNA - Over 1,500 foreign and local tourists are expected to attend this year's Agotime Kente Festival at Kpetoe.
The festival, scheduled between August 5 and September 5 on the theme, "Kente, our heritage for wealth creation," has a history of high patronage from tourists.
Last year over 1,000 tourists were said to have attended the grand durbar and many of them bought kente.
Mr Gabriel Kofi Katamani, Chairman of the 2010 Kente Festival Planning Committee, told the GNA that preparations were advanced to accommodate tourists and visitors to the Festival.
"The people of Agotime are very hospitable and are ready to host visitors even in their homes. We also have nice hotels in Kpetoe and Ho for tourists," he said.
Mr Katamani said this year the festival has a lot of cultural and social activities to give a wholesome package to tourists apart from the "quality and wide range of Kente fabrics."
He said activities such as firing of musketry, borborbor, fetching of water by maidens, Kente night, sounding of talking drums, story telling competitions and riding in palanquin of warlords would add colour to the Festival.
Mr Katamani appealed all citizens of Agotime staying outside the traditional area to come home for the celebrations. | All about the Ghana Election 2008 |
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